Páginas de si: uma investigação teórico-prática sobre o livro de artista como medialidade autobiográfica

Abstract

This dissertation proposes an approach that brings together autobiographical research and the artist’s book, both in theoretical construction and artistic practice. It begins with an understanding of autobiography as a process in which the subject, through a self-narrative mediated by art, seeks to reflect on their own existence. In this context, the artist’s book is explored as a unique and suitable medium — a hybrid format that enables the expression of personal experiences and reflections through visual, verbal, and verbo-visual languages, allowing for multiple narrative possibilities. The artistic production developed throughout the research resulted in three artist’s books, in which different forms of self-representation were explored, engaging with aesthetic, material, and conceptual aspects of the field. The analysis of artworks focused on pieces by contemporary Brazilian artists featured in the Artist’s Book Collection at UFMG, which also engage with autobiographical experiences. The selection considered works with themes convergent with those investigated in this study, even if formally distinct, fostering reflections on the artist’s book as a space for narrative construction and subject formation.